Isotopic effect on collisional widths and shifts of Hg clock transition induced by cold Rb atoms
Abstract
We study the isotopic dependence of collisional widths and shifts of the Hg clock transition 1S0-3P0 perturbed by the Rb atoms in the temperature range from 1 nK to 1 K. For this purpose, we model the Born-Oppenheimer effective interaction potential by including the leading long-range van der Waals coefficients. For elastic collisions, we show the connection between the dependence of collision line shape parameters on the reduced mass of colliding partners as well as the variation of the scattering length in the excited and ground states of the Hg-Rb system in the upmuK temperature range. We confront the full quantum scattering calculations with a semi-classical approximation for collisional widths and shifts. We show that the shape resonances in excited and ground scattering states lead to significant variations of collisional line shape parameters with the change of the reduced mass of colliding atoms. We also indicate the possible influence of inelastic collisions, which could lead to universal behavior and significantly affect the dependence of collisional broadening and shifting on the isotopic combination of colliding atoms.
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BibTeX
@misc{bala2026isotopic,
title = {{Isotopic effect on collisional widths and shifts of Hg clock transition induced by cold Rb atoms}},
author = {Renu Bala and Adam Linek and Marcin Witkowski and Piotr S. Żuchowski and Michał Zawada and Paul S. Julienne and Roman Ciuryło},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.01908},
eprint = {2605.01908},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01908},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Isotopic effect on collisional widths and shifts of Hg clock transition induced by cold Rb atoms
AU - Renu Bala
AU - Adam Linek
AU - Marcin Witkowski
AU - Piotr S. Żuchowski
AU - Michał Zawada
AU - Paul S. Julienne
AU - Roman Ciuryło
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.01908
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01908
AB - We study the isotopic dependence of collisional widths and shifts of the Hg clock transition ^1S_0-^3P_0 perturbed by the Rb atoms in the temperature range from 1 nK to 1 K. For this purpose, we model the Born-Oppenheimer effective interaction potential by including the leading long-range van der Waals coefficients. For elastic collisions, we show the connection between the dependence of collision line shape parameters on the reduced mass of colliding partners as well as the variation of the scattering length in the excited and ground states of the Hg-Rb system in the upmuK temperature range. We confront the full quantum scattering calculations with a semi-classical approximation for collisional widths and shifts. We show that the shape resonances in excited and ground scattering states lead to significant variations of collisional line shape parameters with the change of the reduced mass of colliding atoms. We also indicate the possible influence of inelastic collisions, which could lead to universal behavior and significantly affect the dependence of collisional broadening and shifting on the isotopic combination of colliding atoms.
ER -